[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Aren’t the aborigine natives, “Indigent” peoples, first nations the only ones allowed to take certain walrus and narwal tusks?

” My boomerang won’t come back,
My boomerang won’t come back,
I’ve waved the thing all over the place,
Practised till I was black in the face,
I’m a big disgrace to the Aborigine race,
My boomerang won’t come back.”

Sorry, I couldn’t help it.

[Cold Heart]

Mountie probably bought them from a lazy Eskimo. My understanding is that if the tusk had been harvested by an aborigine and carved into art work by aborigines that it would have some legal sale value.